Search Requests (OLD)

[snowblindmods]

Search Requests (OLD)

Characters are allowed to travel across already traveled upon squares without mod intervention, but if they are traveling across unexplored squares or want to search buildings and other areas, you will have to post here. How much searching and traveling your character can do is based on the weather, any movement penalties your character may have, and any events that may otherwise hinder travel. Common sources of movement penalties are injury and being over-encumbered--if you want to try and drag a mattress around with you, don't expect to get anywhere very quickly! The base amount your character can travel is divided up by area of the map and then split between safe and potentially unsafe travel. Travel is on a per-square basis; safe travel is how many squares you can move and still have time to find a place to shelter for the night--you could reasonably expect to be able to backtrack a bit and settle down in a house if you find yourself in an empty square, while unsafe travel means you're traveling right up until the 8PM lockdown. If you end up in an empty square at that point, your character will be locked outside and die overnight of exposure. The time it takes your character to search is split into a quick search and a thorough search. SEARCHING HAPPENS ON A PER-BUILDING BASIS, NOT A PER-SQUARE BASIS. A quick search of a location gives you more time to travel; a thorough search gives you less time but can yield a larger quantity of items, as well as items that would be better-hidden. By default, a quick search uses up one square of travel time, while a thorough search uses two. Especially large buildings will take longer to explore completely, but these will be noted as they are found. As far as what you can find, typically they will be items normally associated with whatever sort of building you're in. There might be more unusual items in certain areas, though... In the case of certain buildings, things can be assumed to be included in the rooms even if they are not specifically outlined in the descriptions. There are no electronics in homes unless specifically noted. Unless otherwise noted in a specific description, assume the following is in each residential home that has these rooms mentioned: Living Room: couch, armchair, end tables, television stand, bookcases Kitchen: cupboards, counters/counter tops with drawers Dining Room: dining room table, chairs (default is six chairs) Office: desk, chair Nursery: crib, rocking chair, changing station, small dresser Bedroom: bed frame, mattress, dresser, nightstand Master Bedroom: bed frame, mattress, large dresser, two nightstands Bathroom: toiletries Electricity and running water should not be assumed to occur in a house and will be noted in case of a house having these things. If water is mentioned, it defaults to cold water. We encourage you to do your planned traveling all at once so we can get you your results as quickly as possible, but don't worry if IC circumstances lead to your character traveling twice in one day! You can comment again and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. While you're traveling in this manner, if at any point your character would come across something unusual or something they would have to react to, we will pause your travel there to allow you to see what they've come across and react accordingly. Residential Zone One: August 18 - August 31 Day 027 - Day 031 Safe: 5 Squares morning start, 4 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 6 Squares morning start, 5 Squares day start September 1 - September 30 Day 032 - Day 041 Safe: 5 Squares morning start, 4 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 6 Squares morning start, 5 Squares day start Residential Zone Two: August 18 - August 31 Day 027 - Day 031 Safe: 5 Squares morning start, 4 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 6 Squares morning start, 5 Squares day start September 1 - September 30 Day 032 - Day 041 Safe: 5 Squares morning start, 4 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 6 Squares morning start, 5 Squares day start Ice Caves: August 18 - August 31 Day 027 - Day 031 Safe: 7 Squares morning start, 6 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 8 Squares morning start, 7 Squares day start September 1 - September 30 Day 032 - Day 041 Safe: 7 Squares morning start, 6 Squares day start Potentially Unsafe: 8 Squares morning start, 7 Squares day start First, reply to this thread to make a top level comment where all of your search threads will go. This thread should have your character's name in the subject line. To travel into unexplored territory or search, fill out the following form, making sure to reference the setting page where necessary and let us know who is travelling with you, and reply to your own thread: <b>Starting Point:</b> The square your character is starting from. <b>Squares Traveled:</b> The amount of squares your character will be traveling, not counting the square they start from. If your character is backtracking, that will add to this amount, so please note that here. <b>Areas Searched:</b> SQUARE - BUILDING - PASSING THROUGH/QUICKLY/THOROUGHLY SQUARE - BUILDING - PASSING THROUGH/QUICKLY/THOROUGHLY <b>Anything Else?</b> This is the place to note if your character will only continue searching until they find a specific item or if they're specifically looking for only certain things and would discard other things. You can also mention if they're going to try doing anything unusual anywhere. MAKE SURE TO NOTE ANYONE TRAVELING WITH YOU. If your character would like to alter something written in the basic description of a square or building, this is also the place to put that! For example, if your character really is going to give dragging a mattress around a try, they can take one from a house if you let us know. We can both adjust the descriptions of the locations and tell you potential results/penalties. To do this, fill out the following form and reply to your top level: <b>Location:</b> Please be specific! If they're doing something in a building, specify the building. If they're doing something outside, the square would be fine, unless you're having them work in one specific part of the square. <b>What Are They Doing?</b> Again, be specific. This can be as simple as taking an item that's part of the description or as complex as trying to break something down or build something. Note it may not always work and the town may react to attempts to alter it. Finally, we have a character location spreadsheet that lists where characters are on various days, so you can more easily see where everyone is and how it relates to your character. This is player-updated, so feel free to make a row for your character and start adding where they've been!

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[snowblindmods]

The clown figuring would not be there.

[snowblindmods]

It doesn't even so much as scratch any paint. Digging into a seam will bend the screwdriver. Who knows what this house is really made of...

[snowblindmods]

She can do this. The marking will stay on the front door for the remainder of the day before vanishing overnight.

[snowblindmods]

He can use either the clothes he has or he can work out a way to tear some fabric off of something in the living room (maybe with the knife since it should make up for its mistakes).

[spoileralert]

Ugh fine be that way but she's drawing a penis in a corner of the wall in conditioner, with the added note "suck it"

that's way too transparent for Mami to find, right?

[snowblindmods]

The setting page has been updated to reflect these changes.

[snowblindmods]

This has been added to the setting description.

[ossifragant]

What would he be able to cut up in the living room? The couch, maybe? He would do that then-- maybe cut up one of the cushions, and use the knife because how dare it cut him open.

[snowblindmods]

It's very quiet in the school, and the deeper they go the quieter it seems. Footsteps echo more than they should and the distortion gets worse, as if someone were pulling harder and harder at the edges of the film just out of sight. Sometimes the film cuts out entirely, but only for a few seconds at a time. The better-preserved areas of the building have worse film corruption, but there's no specific source.

As they head upstairs, the brighter, less oppressive atmosphere of the stairwell relieves the tension somewhat, but it reinstates itself upstairs, and the film distortion returns.

Searching the school, Jay will find a cardboard container of four dry erase markers (red, black, blue, and green), a simple Dick and Jane styled book, and a kindergartner's winter coat.

While searching upstairs, the piano downstairs will begin to play, and will continue to play until they return downstairs, when it will stop. There is no one in the room it's in--and, of course, there aren't any strings in the piano anyway.

[snowblindmods]

It's very quiet in the school, and the deeper they go the quieter it seems. Footsteps echo more than they should and the distortion gets worse, as if someone were pulling harder and harder at the edges of the film just out of sight. Sometimes the film cuts out entirely, but only for a few seconds at a time. The better-preserved areas of the building have worse film corruption, but there's no specific source.

As they head upstairs, the brighter, less oppressive atmosphere of the stairwell relieves the tension somewhat, but it reinstates itself upstairs, and the film distortion returns. The teacher's lounge is unlocked, and everything except the machine seems accessible without an ID. The atmosphere is thick here, like trying to breathe through thick steam.

Searching the school, Jay will find a teacher's edition of a math textbook that doesn't mention dates but does cover up through what would normally be considered late middle school math despite being labeled as an elementary school resource. He will also find a child's umbrella and a very small backpack shaped like a bear, with the "mouth" opening up and accepting anything placed into it. Inside is a child's drawing of a group of shadow people surrounding a small, crouched figure.

While searching upstairs, the piano downstairs will begin to play, and will continue to play until they return downstairs, when it will stop. There is no one in the room it's in--and, of course, there aren't any strings in the piano anyway.

Day 005

[croi]

Starting Point: I9
Squares Traveled: 5
Areas Searched:
H9 - Nothing - Passing through
H8 - Nothing - Also passing through, deadeyeing the school
G8 - Nothing - This is a fuck ton of nothing
G7 - Nothing - Still nothing, fucking impregnable building
G6 - 29 - THOROUGHLY because probably at this point he's stuck. And cold.
Anything Else? He's basically furiously trying to get into the school because it annoys him (and also because I've got a log coming up somewhere in the general vicinity, good times, if I don't have him there then it would suck.)

[snowblindmods]

Building 9 in F2 is as follows: An ordinary-looking two-story house. The bottom floor has a living room, kitchen, and dining room, with the top floor having a master bedroom, bathroom, and what appears to be a young boy's room, judging by the racecar bed. There are abandoned children's scribbles on the hallway wall downstairs near the front door--stick figure people and animals, mostly.

In building 9, Max will find a picture frame containing a young boy's school photo and a chef's knife.

E2 only contains scattered rubble. Max will find a chunk of drywall roughly the size of a hand.

D2 contains building 13, described as follows: A standard single-story house with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. All the furniture here is modern in style--metal or plastic with either very sharp lines or no lines at all. There are framed movie posters and paintings that seem suited to a college town cafe everywhere.

In building 13, Max will find yellow rubber gloves, a thin fleece blanket with abstract patterns, and a small bottle of shampoo.

[snowblindmods]

Sheena would have to move through F3 to get to E3. Please note in the future if your character is traveling through a square, even if they are not searching it.

G3 contains building 21, which is as follows: Water fills the entire first floor about a foot deep, pouring from burst pipes that never seem to quite run out of water but are leaking slowly enough to as not to flood any further. The entryway is spared only by virtue of being a small area about two feet above the rest of the first floor. The living room, kitchen, and dining room are all partially flooded with stagnant water in this way, and opening the door in the hallway to the basement reveals it's entirely flooded and inaccessible unless you'd like to try diving into the murky, unsanitary darkness. There are a couple of protest signs leaning against the wall beside the basement door that read "WE DON'T NEED A BABYSITTER" in bright red letters. The second floor is dry, thankfully, and has a master bedroom, bathroom, and guest room.

In building 21, Sheena will find a bottle of hand lotion and a bottle of shampoo.

Because she is staying in building 19 for the night, Sheena has the option to search it thoroughly. Would you like to do this?

[snowblindmods]

In building 19, Sheena will find a canary stuffed animal and a basic toothbrush.

In building 16, Sheena will find a pack of cigarettes and a bar of soap. Sheena can select one of two kinds of card: black cards that can be written on and read multiple times, like a standard SD card, or red versions which can only be written on and read once before erasing themselves. She may only receive one today. Which kind will she choose?

[snowblindmods]

Q8 contains nothing but snow.

P8 contains the ruins of three houses, where Zelda will find a 6-inch section of metal pipe and a small chunk of insulation foam. It also contains building 102, described as such: A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. The right first floor bedroom belonged to a child who was very interested in dinosaurs; there are simple books on dinosaurs suited for a child between seven and nine, dinosaur posters, a child's dinosaur drawings taped up on the walls, and even a dinosaur comforter (an apatosaurus, specifically). The left first floor bedroom is a nursery with yellow-painted walls and cute cats and dogs stenciled onto the walls, but the crib has been turned upside-down, making it look like a bizarre cage.

In 102, Zelda will find a first aid kit and a window curtain. Because Zelda has found shelter in P8, she cannot search P7 tonight.

[snowblindmods]

In addition to building 80, R3 also contains three houses, each about half-standing. Searching the rubble in this square, Enoch will find a clump of insulation foam, four screws, and part of a 2"x4" plank.

In building 87, Enoch will find an empty picture frame, a throw pillow, a hairbrush, and a box of tissues.

[snowblindmods]

In building 29, Lancer will find a lacrosse stick, an American football, and a frisbee.

[croi]

HE'S TAKING THE STICK. Because it makes him feel better.

...and the frisbee because why not. Priorities.

[feralone]

Aww, yeah another knife. Taking it. And not even remotely touching that photo, nope nope nope.

Pilfering the blanket and the bottle of useless liquid shampoo. One day he will get to trade things, one day. (No, I don't know why we keep ignoring rubber gloves. Maybe they'd be useful. But we're ignoring them again. |D)

...Also are the sharp metal chairs capable of being broken down?

Day 006

[feralone]

Starting Point: D2
Squares Traveled: 5 (6?) squares of travel time
Areas Searched:
D3 - 16 - VERY THOROUGHLY
D4 - area - QUICKLY
D5 - 28 - THOROUGHLY
Anything Else? Recognizing the park to his west, he'll begin to head back down south again. He'll be disappointed that the store does not have more stuff but hey it's like everything else around here so he'll move on eventually (though he may spend more time here than normal looking for items), heading south like Al.

Still looking for basically the same things: weapons, food items, gasoline, and anymore of the SD cards or other items that may hold keys to locked doors.

[warriorscribe]

Wood is nice too, he will take that plank piece. And the foam because it's kind of weird and he wants to ask the network about it. He will also take the hairbrush and the tissues for sure.

What materials are the picture frame and the throw pillow made of? And how big are they? Does the frame have glass in it?

DAY 006

[figureitout]

Starting Point: 74
Squares Traveled: 3
Areas Searched:
P3 - 75 - THOROUGHLY
O3 - 74 - doesn't search the building but rather the rubble around it
N3 - 79 - THOROUGHLY
Anything Else? Stiles will go back to the grocery store to see if the food items he took (about enough to last him 5-6 days) have been restocked during the night, as well as to see if he missed something important the day before, like clothes or a flashlight or something of the sort. Around building 74, he will search the rubble for anything that could help with solving the "code" (as he's decided the math wall is actually a code), and then in building 79 he'll search for anything useful, as well as any indication as to what happened to the people and what kind of lives they had.

[figureitout]

He's taking all of the mentioned items, as well as enough food in the grocery store to last him 5-6 days! Is the blanket clean, or does it smell like it's been used before?

day 006

[dr_unconscious]

Starting Point: A6/B6 (the funeral home)
Squares Traveled: 3 (at most)
Areas Searched:
A6 - 33 - QUICKLY
A7 - anything - QUICKLY/THOROUGHLY if he finds a building
A9 - 39 and surroundings - THOROUGHLY if he gets there
Anything Else? After recovering from the world's weirdest and most uncomfortable morning, Clayton will quickly rummage his way through the far half of the funeral home to make sure he isn't leaving anything important behind, then he'll follow the wall south, looking for shelter first (at which point he'll immediately stop for the day). Wherever he stops, he's looking for the usual fire-starting or sustaining materials, clothes and shoes, blankets, and medical supplies, as well as any passing signs of recent life or disturbances.

[maskintape]

oh jesus christ

So if Tim were to leave his tablet recording a view of the piano and head back upstairs with Jay to keep searching, would it start playing again? And if so, would anything show up on the recording?

He's taking the markers but leaving the rest of the stuff. Ergh. Are there any sheets of paper or exercise books or something he could rummage for so he has something to write on? 8O